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An introduction to new media and cybercultures / Pramod K. Nayar.

By: Nayar, Pramod K.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010Description: vii, 216 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781405181662; 9781405181679.Subject(s): Cyberspace -- Social aspects | Internet -- Social aspects | Computers and civilization | Information society | Media Studies | Society & culture: general | Media studies | Cultural studiesDDC classification: 303.4833 NAY
Contents:
"Reading" cybercultures -- Popular cybercultures -- Bodies -- Subcultures -- Gender and sexualities -- Public spaces -- Cybercultures: new formations -- Conclusion.
Summary: This comprehensive introduction explores the theories and new information and communication technologies that we now take to be, but often fail to really understand, as 'cyberculture'.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting-edge and much needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication. Considers cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory Offers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity Includes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics Examines key questions in the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cyberculture

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-213) and index.

"Reading" cybercultures -- Popular cybercultures -- Bodies -- Subcultures -- Gender and sexualities -- Public spaces -- Cybercultures: new formations -- Conclusion.

This comprehensive introduction explores the theories and new information and communication technologies that we now take to be, but often fail to really understand, as 'cyberculture'.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface and Acknowledgments (p. vi)
  • 1 "Reading" Cybercultures (p. 1)
  • 2 Popular Cybercultures (p. 30)
  • 3 Bodies (p. 65)
  • 4 Subcultures (p. 87)
  • 5 Gender and Sexualities (p. 115)
  • 6 Public Spaces (p. 136)
  • 7 Cybercultures: New Formations (p. 157)
  • Conclusion (p. 173)
  • Glossary (p. 183)
  • Bibliography (p. 187)
  • Index (p. 214)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006), An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), and Cybercultures: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).